I can’t believe it’s the last day of November already. It will be Christmas and New Years before we know it. I hope you’re doing well.

This week Clair Brett asks, after writing a book and publishing it, do the characters stay with you, or have a life after the book in your own mind or does their life/story end at the end of your book?

I think people want to hear that they continue on in my mind living a long and happy lives. And, I’m sure they do live wonderful lives, just not in my mind. Once I finish a book, I’m on to the next story. I have so many wonderful tales to tell, I can’t continue with those that have already had their Happily Ever After. It wouldn’t be fair to the next couple. I need all my energy focused on the book I’m writing. From time to time, those old characters do show up in another book. When that happens, they tell me all about how life in a committed relationship is going, so I can share some tidbit with you.

Otherwise, I leave the imaginings of what HEA means to all of you wonderful readers. What do you think happens to a loving pair of fictional characters after the book ends? Do you continue the story in your head?

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Keep on Hopping for Clair Brett!

Clair Brett’s Ruination of a Rogue is just the holiday book to get you through. Be sure to pick it up for a feel-good read.

Her God mother’s annual Twelfth Night house party and ball is Miss Maria Lightowler’s best chance of finding a husband who will secure her future. If she can transform herself from wild country girl to elegant lady, perhaps she can pull it off. Not to mention a magic pendant professed to find your soulmate she may have a chance. With no dowry, the man she marries must have enough of a fortune, so Maria need not worried about those things she went without as a child. From the moment the guests begin to arrive, one unworthy man seems determined to stand in her way. What he obviously lacks in funds, he makes up for in charisma, but Maria repeatedly strikes him from her list.

Lord LaZander Rothchild, Viscount Milford is hiding. His hope is it will only be until the potential scandal in London dies down. Since his father went ill, Zander has been the victim of too many marriage traps to count. Now at his aunt’s annual match making extravaganza, he hopes to avoid most of the guests until he can sneak back into the city. His aunt, unfortunately, has other ideas. Luckily, because of his propensity to be embroiled in so many mishaps, the marriage-minded mamas at the house party have blacklisted him concerning their daughters. However, one beautiful and tempting young woman, unaware of him on any level, seems determined to cast him aside as well. While she treats him not as the heir to a Marquess or a man of any real consequence Zander grows determined to prove he is a worthy option and may just set and get trapped in his own marriage scheme.

https://books2read.com/RuinationofaRogue